Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19497, Conrad Getman, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Getman, Conrad Maria
W19497
CONTENTS

New York 20150
Conrad Getman
of Herkimer in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dillinger in the N. York line for 6 Mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st day of Aug. 1832 and to the L. Gray 1833 Herkimer
Arrears to the 4th of Mar '31 $ 4 00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 1 st Sep '31 1 00 $5 00
Recorded by { Revolutionary Claim, } Col. Titus { Act June 7, 1832. } Clerk. Book C Vol. V. Page 58

4581. New York Albany Maria Getman widow of Conrad N.Y. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
736
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of March 1849 and sent to J. A. Rasbach Herkimer N.Y.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 76 Vol. 11.

15933
Conrad Getman Herkimer co. N. York
In what business was he engaged?
Where did he reside when he entered the service?
 1. Were the papers defective as to form or irregularities, and if so, in what respects?  2. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the weight of evidence? 
oath.
X Conrad Getman that the foregoing statement and the answers given with the evidence in the case above.
   Period. Age. Number of Service. Date. Amount.     16-06 May 11 th 1833 $ 392  
Charles Gray Herkimer New York
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
5. How old is he?
6. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
7. Was the application made before a Court or a Judge?
(See 1st June, 1833)
8. On the State of
9. In the case of

BRIEF in the case of  Conrad Getman  of Herkimer co. in the State of  New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.      In 17 Enlisted  1782 substituted  for Henry Van Duren  3 Private  Gen. Herkimer  Capt. Smith, Col. Ballinger  Capt. French, Col. Millitt     states he performed guard duty at Fort Herkimer to the close of the war.
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? German Flats New York  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witnesses prove service from 1778 to close of war in guarding fort Herkimer  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
Not connected as required
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Bradford.
Examining Clerk.

State of New York Herkimer County ss
Personally appeared before me Charles Gray Commissioned Pioneers of Deeds of Canada Garrison who being duly sworn deposes & states that he is of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not up from the period mentioned below and in the following grades
For three months I served as private by enlistment in a company commanded by Captain John Smith that there were no other officers in said company that I can now recollect said Capt. Smith was under the command of Col. Peter Bellinger - Lieut. Col. Frederick Bellinger & Major Lewis Clapp - that I do not remember the year in which this service was rendered but believe it was in the year 1779 - that service was wholly rendered at Fort Herkimer in guarding said Fort.
For three months I served as a private in a company of nine months men commanded by Capt. French in the Regiment commanded by Col. Manning Willett, this service I rendered as a substitute in the room of Henry Van Buren who had been enlisted for twelve months and had served six months of his said period of enlistment - that this service was rendered by me in the year

1782 as I now recollect and believe, that I served said two periods of three months I am positive but cannot state for certain the years in which this service was rendered but believe it was in the years above stated.
That I served as a private in the Militia for the term of six months in the Company commanded by Captain Frederick Gotman who was my father, Lieut. John Ross and Ensign Jacob Myers, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Peter Bellinghausen Lieut. Col. Frederick Bellinghausen Major Dennis Clappette.
That in this last term of Militia service I include all my actual service rendered in the Militia from the time of my enlistment in the Militia which I believe was in the year 1779 or 1780 to the close of the war. my voluntary service and furloughs were not counted That I believe I served in the Militia under the said officers last aforesaid before I was sixteen years of age and before I was enrolled and of which I am certain - That the service rendered by me before I was sixteen was the discharge of guard duty at Fort Kaskaskia that in the Spring of the year 1782 as I now recollect and believe my father Capt. Gotman was taken prisoner to Canada and returned home again in the fall following. That whilst he was absent Capt. Frederick French had the command of the Company of my father Capt. Gotman and

during that period I rendered some service under said Capt. Frank that I repeatedly volunteered whilst I was in the Militia Service in pursuit of the enemy as is stated in my declaration to that my volunteer service as well as all my Militia Service was for periods uncertain and indefinite and at different and various times and occasions during the period of said war and I do not remember and cannot state with any precision or certainty nor do I recollect how long I did serve at any one time but believe and have no doubt that all my volunteer and other Militia Service taken collectively amounted to six months actual service and for such service I claim a pension.
Conrad F. Gotman mark
State of New York Berkshire County
On the 22 nd day of May 1833 before me Charles Gray Commissioner of Deeds for the above Conrad F. Gotman and by his mark subscribed and in due form of law made oath to the foregoing affidavit - and I further certify that I am well acquainted with said Conrad F. Gotman and that he is a person of good character and a man of credibility.
Charles Gray

State of New York Dutchess County
38
I, Julius C. Nelson clerk of said County do hereby certify that Charles Gray by whom the foregoing Affidavit of Carmel Getman purports to have been sworn was on the date of said Affidavit a Commissioner of said County duly authorized & administered oaths and to swear Affidavits - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Charles and believe his signature to said Affidavit to be genuine and the proper hand writing of the said Charles In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 22 d day of May 1833
Julius C. Nelson Clerk

C. Getman In the Matter of Conrad Getman For a Pension
15933
Claims bmo as guard
Not defined - supposed to be frontier patrol -
acmd
bmo. pri
20 $

State of New York } Herkimer County } ss
On the 11 th day of October 1882 personally appeared in open Court before the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Herkimer now sitting Comad Captain of the town of Columbia in the County of Herkimer and State of New York aged sixty nine  seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 9 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated.
That as soon as he attained the age of sixteen  and after the Revolutionary War  which was in the year 1779 he was enrolled in a company of Militia Commanded by Captain Frederick Getman who was his father Lieutenant John Root  and Captain and Ensign Jacob Myers - That in obedience to the orders of his Commanding Officers he armed and equipped himself as the said Militia was then required and with the exception of the time of his enlistment and other service as herein after mentioned kept himself in readiness at all times until the close of the Revolutionary war to march at a minutes warning - That after his enlistment the year he does not particularly recollect but believes it was in the year 1778  or  1779  1778 he enlisted for the term of three months into a company commanded by Captain John Smith and fully served for the said term of three months under said John Smith - That the service under said Smith was wholly performed at Fort Herkimer in the Town of Germanflats County of Tryon now Herkimer County where said John Smith and his company were stationed during said period guarding and

and defending said Fort - that he does not remember who were the other Officers in said Company - that said Company was under the command of Colonel Peter Bellingr. as he now thinks who was Colonel of the Militia of the County of Tryon and General  General  was then General - that afterwards in the year 1782 he again served as a Substitute in a Company of nine months men common- ed by Captain French - that he served as such substitute in the place of Henry Van Duverken who had enlisted into said Company for nine months - that six months of said term of nine months had already been served by said Van Duverken and that the residue of said term of nine months being the period of three months was fully served and completed by him - that he does not remember who were the Lieutenant and Ensign and under Capt French - that said service of three months was rendered altogether at Fort Harkness where said French and his company were stationed during his said period of service - that said Captain French and his company belonged to the Regiment of Colonel Willet - that besides his said two terms of enlistment and service aforesaid he served in the Militia of Tryon County from the time of his enlistment  in the Militia  in 1779 until the close of the Revolutionary war - that prior to his enlistment all the houses and dwellings at Germanflats where he resided had been burnt by the enemy - that from the time Germanflats was burnt to the close of the war the Inhabitants of Germanflats residing near Fort Harkness and who did not remove to other parts were collected at and lived at in Fort Harkness - that the parents and family of him said Conrad were among the number living and said Fort - that with the exception of his absence from said Fort on other duty which was frequent and for short periods only he was stationed at said Fort Harkness from the time of his enlistment as aforesaid until the close of the war -

That whilst so stationed at said Fort he and the rest of the militia stationed there with occasionally some regulars stationed at said Fort were almost constantly engaged in guarding and defending said Fort and the inhabitants collected there - That whilst he was stationed at said Fort he frequently turned out as a volunteer in pursuit of the enemy - that at one time he was in pursuit of the enemy when they had a skirmish with the enemy on the north side of the Mohawk River near Fort Dayton - that he was with the Americans also in pursuit of the enemy when Brant was killed on the West Canada Creek - That he was at other times in pursuit of the enemy whenever attacks were made upon the inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Fort Schenck - that he was in the Fort Schenck when an attack was made upon the said Fort by the enemy - that he was very often upon duty in the fields to guard the inhabitants of said Fort when employed in the usual farm labour upon their lands in the vicinity of Fort Schenck - that sometimes the regular troops stationed at said Fort were also employed in guarding the inhabitants when labouring upon their lands - that he was himself at times engaged in labouring on the fields when others were on guard around him and those employed in labouring with him - That from the time of his enrolment until the spring of the year 1782 he was in the company under the command of his father Captain Frederick Göttsche - that in the spring of said year 1782 his father Captain Göttsche was taken prisoner and carried to Canada when Captain Frederick Frank came to the command of the company and commanded the same until the fall of the same year - when his father returned home and resumed the command again -

that the Inhabitants so collected at Fort Schukin remained at said Fort at all times as well in winter as summer and that the military force at said Fort from the state of alarm constantly prevailing and the apprehensions of attacks from the enemy were required to perform guard duties as well in the winter as in the summer seasons - that he has no documentary evidence of his services - that he thinks he had discharges although he is not certain and that if he has had discharges the same are now lost - that he has no record of his age - that his service he can prove in no better way - that he is aware  sure of than  the by the testimony of Jacob C Ithg & Conrad Hess
whose Affidavits are herunto annexed - that the Regiment to which the company, in which he was enrolled and served as a militia-man was attached to was commanded by Colonel Peter Billings as he believes who was a Colonel in the Militia of the then County of Tryon - and David Clapsaddle was their Major - that he does not know who were the field Officers of Captain French under whom he served for three months as aforesaid except Colonel Marinus Willett - that Captain French and his company were  was the only men of the Corps of three months men stationed at Fort Schukin at the time of his service under him - that Colonel Willett and the other field Officers were not at any time at said Fort during said service - that Colonel Willett at the time was stationed at Fort Plain - that said French was at the time detached from the said Regiment and stationed at said Fort Schukin -
That he was born at now town Frankfort  German Flatts then in the County of Tryon - that he never had any record of his age but determined his age from

the ages of some of his neighbors who pretend to know his age and whom he believes are thereby has no doubt that he is sixty nine years of age — that he does not know the year or month or day of the month in which he was born —
That he was living at Germantown aforesaid when he entered the service as above stated.
That since the Revolutionary War he has lived in Frankfort Germantown and Columbia in Kentucky.
That he now lives in Columbia in the County of the time —
That he then  was enlisted into the service for the term of three months each and that his said militia service was performed under orders from his officers  issued in pursuance of a resolution of Congress passed in the year 1775 as he is informed and believes and at one time served as a substitute in the room of Henry Van Buren for three months —
That he does not recollect the names of any of the Regular officers with whom he served although there were occasionally regular troops stationed at Fort the time where he served during said War
That he served in the militia Regiment commanded by Colonel Peter Bellinger Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Bellinger and Major Denis Clapsaddle — That Captain Moody and Lieutenant  Major  Malcolm he thinks were stationed at Fort the time while he served there —
That he does not know that he

ever had any written discharge for any of his services — that if has had any the same are lost
That he is known to Henry S. Orendorff and Henry Helmer, & John Stehman — Rev of Columbia — His present neigh- bors who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolu- -tion —
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any state.
Conrad Ederick Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in Open Court Julius C. Nelson Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states — And the court do further certify that it appears to them from their acquaintance with Jacob C. Stitz and Conrad Hepp the persons by whose Affidavits the said service of the said applicant is also proved, that the

said Sarah C. Stuy and Conrad Hoppe are persons of credibility and that the statements of the said persons contained in their respective Affidavits are entitled to full credit—
I Julius C Nelson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Herkimer, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Conrad Getman for a pension—
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 11th day of October 1832 Julius C Nelson Clerk

State of New York } Herkimer County } ss
Conrad Nops of the Town of Germanflats in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was twenty years of age on the 25 th day of March last past - that he is acquainted with Conrad Gptman of the Town of Columbia in said County who as he is informed is an applicant for a pension under the Act of June 7, 1832 - that he was acquainted with said Gptman during the whole of the Revolutionary war - that said Gptman and this Deponent during said war both resided in Germanflats - that said Gptman during said war was enlisted into a company commanded by Captain John Smith and served under said Smith for the term of three months as this Deponent believes - that said service was rendered at Fort Herkimer at Germanflats in the then County of Tryon - that this Deponent was stationed at said Fort Herkimer during the same period so part of the time as a substitute in the place of Nat Hurn in the nine months service and knows of the said service of the said Gptman from that circumstance - that at another time the said Conrad Gptman served again for the term of three months in the nine months service - that he does not remember the Officers under whom said Gptman served in the nine months service but knows of his said service for the reason that this Deponent was during the whole of the said last mentioned term of service of said Gptman stationed at said Fort Herkimer where the said service of the said Gptman last afore mentioned was also rendered - And this Deponent further saith that from the time that Germanflats was burnt which he believes was in the year 1788 he this Deponent and the said Gptman

and their parents and many of the inhabitants of Gummata's land in Fort Reliance to the close of the said war - that during the whole of said period with the exception of the time that this Deponent and the said Gorman were absent on duty they were stationed at said Fort Reliance - that although their service at said Fort Reliance was not continual yet that they were most of the time from the year 1878 when they first went to said Fort to the close of the war on duty at said Fort Reliance both in the winter and in the summer season - that this Deponent knows that said Gorman was with the Americans on the west Canada line when Butte was killed - that this Deponent was present at the time and saw said Gorman then - that said Gorman and this Deponent while stationed at Fort Reliance were under orders which orders were issued to the militia of that District Generally, to keep themselves ready at a moment's warning and that they did so keep themselves in readiness and were repeatedly called out under such orders - that this Deponent although he recollects the service of said Gorman under said Captain John Smith and his said service among the nine months men distinctly yet he does not recollect the particular years in which the same was done - Conrad Foss Sworn in Open Court Oct 11th 1872 Julius C Nelson Clerk

State of New York Berkshire County ss
Isaac C. Atty of the Town of Columbia in said County being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is fifty eight years of age - that he is acquainted with Conrad Gotman of the said Town of Columbia and that he was well acquainted with said Conrad during the Revolutionary War and that he knows that said Conrad Gotman was enlisted and served for the term of three months during said War in a company commanded by Captain John Smith - that said Service was performed at Fort Berkshire in the County of Lycoming now Berks County of Pennsylvania that this deponent was enlisted with said Conrad at the same time under the same Captain and served with him during said term - that said Conrad served also for three months under Capt. French who was a Captain in the Corps of Engineers months more - that said Service was also rendered by said Conrad at Fort Mifflin where this deponent was then also stationed and at the same time served served also with said Conrad under said Captain French - and this deponent further saith that the said Conrad Gotman and this deponent were enrolled during said

was in the Militia of Lyon County in a company under the command of Captain Frederick G. Johnson and John Root & Paul Myers were the Subaltern Officers in said Company and which said Company was under the command of Colonel Peter B. Birtcher a Colonel in the Militia of Lyon County - that with the exception of the said service rendered by said Company as heretofore before mentioned, the said Company served at Fort Kearney from the time of its enrolment until the close of the Revolutionary War - that the said Company and this Department served as said Fort Kearney both in the Winter and Summer season and that their service at said Fort was to guard said Fort and the inhabitants collected there against the enemy that although there were times when no duty was required of them at said Fort yet those periods were short and that their duty at said Fort were almost constant and further saith not -
Sworn to this 11th day of October 1852 before Jacob Clegg in Open Court Julius C. Nelson Clerk

State of New York County of Rensselaer
On this 14 th day of February one thou- -sand Eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Rensselaer in open Court before the Judges thereof the same being a Court of record. Maria Getman aged Seventy three years the last of May next, a resident of the town of Columbia in the County and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 17 th 1838. Entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Conrad Getman who was a private in the Revolutionary Army. That the said Conrad Getman her husband after the Revolutionary war and after their marriage informed her of different ser- -vices that he performed during the said war in the Revolutionary Army but she cannot now recollect all the said services that he was at Fort Schuyler and was out on different tours. that he went on an excursion to what was called the Barr place. that he was in the service the year that Butler was taken and was in the pursuit of Butler when he was taken that he was on an excursion to Oneida. and to Fort Dayton - that she does not recollect who his officers were but recollects that he often spoke of Capt. Dooty. and Col. Van Rensselaer that he was a pensioner under the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum that his pay Certificate bears date the 7 th day of August 1833. that her maiden name was Maria Frank and she further declares that she was married to the said Conrad Getman on the Eighth day of November in the Year one thousand eight hundred and eighty five that her husband the aforesaid Conrad Getman died on the Twenty ninth day of March in the Year one thou- -sand Eight hundred and thirty six. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the mar- -riage took place previous to the first of January seven- -teen hundred and thirty four N.Y. at the time above stated. that they were married at the house of Fred- -rick Frank in the town of German Flats and that the Rev. Abraham Rose County who

was the regular minister that at that time performed divine service at German Flatts and in that section of Country and Solemnized marriages. That since his death she has not been married and remains his widow now
the words "widow of. Capt." and "that, in the foregoing interlined before the signing of the above and the swearing to the above
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the day and year first Above mentioned Dyari Clerk
Maria has G. G. G. G. mark
Given under my hand and Seal of Office The 14 th February 1839
Dyari Clerk

State of New York Herkimer Co. ss. I Abraham G. Rose grants of the town of Little Falls in said County being duly sworn says that he is nearly 35 years of age that he is the son of the late George Rosegrants deceased and the grandson of the Rev. Abra- ham Rosegrants who in his life time was the minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church at Herkimer and German Flatts, and solemnized performed marriages and kept a book of Records of marriages and baptisms which said Book of records at this deponent was always informed and believed and now believes was kept by the said Rev. Abraham Rosegrants, in his life time and which records were afterwards in the possession of the late George Rosegrants, the father of this deponent until his death which event happened on 21 st of December 1838 Since then the said Book of Records have been and now are in the possession of this deponent he being the son and Executor of the said George Rosegrants
That he has this day examined the said record of marriages and finds an entry that on the Eighth day of November one thousand eight hundred and Eighty five Conradt Getman was married to Maria Frank That the entry on said record of marriages is in the words and figures following "1785 28 Novem Conradt Getmann und Maria Fr. Frank" That the foregoing is a true Extract from the records of Rev. Abraham Rosegrants deceased
The word solemnized interlined in the 8 th line the word Conradt in the 24 th and the Frank in 25 th line little blotched before the insertion of the above. Dated Jan y 31. 1839
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31. day of January 1839
Abraham G. Rosegrants
Patrick Rachach Scribe
And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent the said Abraham G.

Prosecutors, and that he is a man of good character and standing in society, and that statements are entitled to full credit and belief.
J. A. Rasbach J.P.
Ullrich Estman

State of New York } County of Herkimer } ss Henry Helmer of the town of Columbia in said County aged Seventy two Years in April next who being first duly sworn before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace of Herkimer in the County and State aforesaid do, on his oath say that he has resided in the immediate neighbourhood of the late Conrad Getman and Maria Getman his wife now the widow of the said Conrad Getman deceased for about forty Five Years last past That during this time he this deponent was intimately acquainted with the said Conrad Getman until the decease of the said Conrad, and also with the said Maria, the wife of the said Conrad now his widow. That the said Maria Getman the now widow of the late Conrad Getman aforesaid is now the daughter of J. Frank deceased, that previous to her marriage her name was Maria Frank. That this deponent knows that the said Conrad Getman in his life time drew a pension and also says that he was informed and believed and now believes that the said Conrad was entitled to more Pension than he received. that he was informed that a mistake was made at the Pension Office giving him the said Conrad the pay only of a life amount. which error this deponent was informed must have been made by taking the papers for a Mr. Etick for his. That the said Conrad Getman died nearly three years ago and that he left his widow Maria Getman, who has not since been married and remains his widow now. That the said Maria Getman the widow of the said Conrad Getman deceased is now about to apply for a pension that the said Conrad was the only person in said town by that

name who was a Revolutionary Pensioner and the said Maria is the only woman in said town by that name and who is the widow of Conrad Gutman - Dated Feb 19. 1839
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19 th day of February 1839
Henry his  Helmer mark
John Krushack Justice of the Peace In presence of John Steenberg
I further certify that I am acquainted with the above deponent. That he is a man of good character. and that his statements are entitled to full credit and belief
John Krushack J.P.
State of New York Herkimer County ss I John Dygert Clerk of said County do hereby certify that John D. Krushack Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits purport to have been taken was at their dates one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe the signatures to be genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said county This 19 th February 1839
Dygert Clerk
Anna Dorothea Miller
4799
Mar 8 at 38 Has 29 March 1836
Husband died 29 March 1836-
Admitted
Emitted 6 mo
Refused to communicate 29 March 1836
J. N. Rausick Herkimer
N.Y.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19497
Maria Getman
Widow of
Conrad Getman
Prin New Was
Act: Feb 2d 48
Index:—Vol. 8 Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4560 a,
New York
Maria Getman
widow of Conrad Getman
who was a private in the New York line.
Rep 22 Jan 1844
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20. Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of January 1844 and sent to
J. H. Hasbuck Arlkimer, N. York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book a Vol. 1. Page 117

Albany 3346
Maria Getman widow of Conrad Getman
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7. June 1832 and who died on the 29. March 1836 of Herkimer in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the reg't commanded by Bellinger in the New York line for 6 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 20 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 29. March 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of June 1839 and sent to J. N. Barbach Herkimer, N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March 39 58.62 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. " 10.00 $68.62
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 79
debt and 30 March collected.

New York v 3340
Maria Getman widow of Conrad Getman
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832, and who died on the 29 March 1836 - of Herkimer (in the State of N. Yk) who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Smith — of the Regt commanded by Col Belling — in the N. Yk — line for brig —
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. and ending 29 March '36
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d day of December '43 and sent to J. A. Rag- -back, Herkimer, N. Yk.
Whole amount due . . . . . $2.67
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. Wetmore Clerk,
Book 4 Vol. 2 Page 79

5050
Maria Getman
$20.
J. H. Rasbach Herkimer N.Y.

Albany. N.Y.
Conrad Getman act June 7. 1832 to what time paid?
VS
John Harry Esq. 10 th to 4 th March 1836 JH
same John and 2 nd March 1836

Conrad Getman
16
Chas. Gray Hicksville N.Y.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Conrad Getman of Herkimer county, N. York. which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? Yes
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? all answered
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

State of New York Rensselaer County } ss. On this 22 day of February 1849 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths Mrs. Maria Getman a resident of the town of Columbia in the County of Rensselaer and State of New York aged Eighty Three
Years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 2 nd February 1848 granting pensions to the wid- ows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of Comrad Getman who was a private in the war of the Revolution and that she has drawn a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per annum under the act of 17 th June 1844. She further declares that she is still a widow
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and Year above written before me
her Maria X Getman mark
Peter H Warren Justice of the peace
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit, and that she makes her mark for the reason as she alleges, that she never could write
Peter H Warren Justice of the peace

STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. HERKIMER COUNTY, }
I, STANDISH BARRY, Clerk of the County of Herkimer, do certify that
Peter H. Warren Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing and endorsed thereon, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a
Justice of the peace in and for said county, dwelling in the said county, and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and very believe his name subscribed to the said certificate to be his genuine signature, and that the same is acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county, at Herkimer, this 28 day of February A. D. 184
S. Barry Clerk By John H. Woodin dep Clerk.

Maria Getman
NY
arrears -
20 $ from
March 36 to 29
March 36 - v 248 -
L. A. Rasbach H. Reimer N.Y.

State of New York,
Herkimer County } ss:
On this twenty sixth day of September 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned Justice of the peace in and for said County. Maria Getman a resident of the town of Columbia in the County of Herkimer aforesaid aged Seventy Seven Years in May last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the amount of Pension which she claims from the 4 th of March 1836 to the 29 th day of March 1836 from which period she has been already paid under the act of the 7 th July 1838. And the declarant further alleges that she is still the widow of Conrad Getman who was a soldier during the Revolutionary war. That her pension was allowed at the rate of twenty dollars per annum and was paid to her at the Agency in Albany in the State of New York And further saith not
known and subscribed
before me September 26. 1843
J. A. Rabbach
witness Jacob Voorhies
Maria his X Getman mark

State of New York } Herkimer County } ss:
On this fifth day of April one thousand Eight hundred & forty three personally appeared before the undersigned justice of the peace of the County of Herkimer Maria Getman a resident of the town of Columbia in the said County of Herkimer aged Seventy Seven Years in May next who being first duly sworn ac- cording to Law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the third March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served in during the Revolutionary war, That she is the widow of Conrad Getman who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, but she can not now remember the rank he held, but she thinks he served only in the capacity of a private neither can she now state the Company or Regi- ment he served in, but she states that her husband the said Conrad Getman in his life time made application for and received a pension at the rate of twenty dollars per month under the act of 1832, and that after his death which event happened on the 29 th day of July  May 1836 and after the passage of the act of July 7 1838, she made her application for a pension under the said act of 1838, and received a pension for five years at the rate of twenty dollars per year, and she refers to the application made by her for pension under the act of 1838, which referred also to the application made by her said husband Conrad Getman in his life time for pension under the act of 1832 for proof of the ser- vice marriage &c. — She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Conrad Getman Subscribed and sworn before me this 5 th day of April 1843 J. H. Walbach justice without money & fee Maria Getman her mark

Herkimer County ss: I certify that I am personally acquainted with Maria Poteman the within declarant and know her to be the person represented and described in the within declaration
J. A. Rustbach Esq.
Herkimer County
Clarks Officiating: I certify that John A. Rustbach Esq. was a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Herkimer (duly elected & qualified) on the day of the date of the within affidavit & that his signature to the within said affidavit & also the above Certificate is genuine - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said County this 5th day of Dec. 1843 -
E. A. Morrison Clerk

R. Oct 2. 1843.
Anna Selman act 1843 Elizabeth Selman and 3 for arrears N.Y.
Return Card
Yrs
J. Edwards Esq. Compt of Pensions Washington D.C.

Sir Herkimer N.Y. Sept. 26. 1863
Enclosed I transmit You the claim of Maria Getman under the act of 1843. It is the same before forwarded with others. I also for the claim for arrears from 4 th March 1836 to 29 th March 1836. which last is only for a small amount. and she would like it if it could be embraced in the other claim. So as to make the expense as small when as possible -
Your Ob t Serv t J. H. Babcock
J. L. Edwards Esq. Compt r of Pensions
The Children and heirs of Elizabeth Hartes widow Adam Hartes both deceased - desire also for a certificate for the amount which was due the said Elizabeth their mother from the 4 th of March 1836 to the time her pension was paid, and which was drawn by the children after her decease on reference to the papers on file. in Your office the day the pay to the widow commenced
Yours &c J. H. Babcock
J. L. Edwards Esq. Compt r of Pensions

Jan
4560
My
310
J. L. Edwards Esq Camp of Pioneers Washington D.C.
Col

St. Louis Mo. Feb 28/49
Sir
I herewith send you the claim of Mrs Maria Estman for Pension under the act of 1848. Please pay same and if not have not, certificate same
Yours Respectfully
Benj Sedgewick Camp of Muscat
J A Rathbun